Rangeley Lakes

Rangeley Lakes. VOL. I. RANGELEY, MAINE, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1895. NO. 1. Agent Miller what it was. He said it was press had not yet received its tapes, it park and health resort, and every acre of HOW WE STARTED. billed a printing press. had x’emained unblanketed through the land will be greatly enhanced in value, “ Guess someone’s going to start a news cold days and the temperature of any part and every acre profitably employed, with paper, ” said the crowd. of it ran close down to nothing. It was, the natural consequence to our people that “ Wonder who it is?” came next. evening and a couple of Rochesters were accrues to any people living in sections Some of the Humor of “ What’s the tag say?” doing duty in place of a stove—they con where land is properly utilized. “ Can’t make anything out of it,” was quered—so did we, but not till quite a A point in cconnection with the promo Getting the Rangeley the reply. “ It’s a B with a couple of quantity of midnight oil had gone up in tion of our summer resort industries can marks around it,” for the press came from flame. Everything was accomplished till not be too strongly emphasized. That is Lakes on Its Feet. the factory in a way to tell no tales. it came to the adjustment of the fly, and the utilization about home, in various The feline then emerged from its conceal then things flew. A sheet of paper would avenues, of the large sums of money, sav ment (as they would say in Boston). pass through the regular course of a sheet ings of the people, now invested abroad. Pei'haps you think a newspaper office is The carefully guarded secret became an being printed, would pass out from the Millions of capital earned in New England something which you can go out of an open one and by Monday night every citi tape rollers over the fly and then with a have been invested beyond the state lines afternoon and select, leave your address zen in town had heard the news. jump the fly would fly and catch the paper for want of opportunities for its profitable and find it all delivered and ready for bus It spread like election returns: but, un when about half way through and the employment at home. This money has iness the next morning. like the latter, was pleasing to all. As a paper would fly in pieces. Another adjust been withdrawn from trade circulation, If such be your idea and you have the matter of fact, there may be persons in ment and the fly would deliver a whack at and even when safely invested its use in means and inclination, go forth and see Rangeley who are sorry that a paper is the sheet and deliver it the wrong way. that direction has been damaging to busi how long your ideas will stand the test. being started; but, if such there be, they More adjustment. Then our fly would ness and hurtful to real estate values. I haven’t the figures at hand, but it’s my have not been heard from either directly beat the average base ballist, strike every As the summer resort business is ex private opinion that a printing office is or indirectly. thing sent to it, make a home run and panded, incidental to it must come en composed of 899,633 separate pieces and When the foreman and the substitute beat the devil (or the substitute devil), if larged trade, building, and additional that each one comes by itself. I further devil struck town Monday night the big he wasn’t quick enough to get out of the industries of various kinds into which believe that each piece is endowed with a press was piled high in the press room. way. money can be safely placed, and through faculty of never being exactly where it is There were six boxes of it and each one The heavy looker on, who has not fig whose channels it will travel into our wanted at a given time. If you have weighed from 100 to 8,000 pounds. ured extensively in this narrative thus far, stores, banks, insurance companies, and adjusted No. 2689 and reach out for No. The foreman said we wanted the side now made a suggestion that the cam be all other industries. A thousand dollars 2690 you will discover that it’s at the very frames first. Naturally they were the last moved just a bit. It was done in an in so employed—kept in active business cir farthest end of the office. If you want No. in the pile and the intervening boxes stant and a somewhat battered sheet sent culation at home—is worth to a commu 3976 you will readily find Nos. 3973, 3977, weighed in the neighborhood of 4,000 the rounds. It completed its journey nity a great many thousand sent out West but it will take 15 minutes' search to lo pounds. Therefore it became necessary to through the press, ran out on the tapes, to develop some other locality and cate the one that comes between. After open everything as we went along and so gently dropped on the fly and “ there she strengthen the political power of a region an office is made shipshape there is a place work our way through to what we needed goes” was shouted as at just the right tainted with financial heresies inseparable for everything and everything is in its first. moment the much abused fly did its work from people where the debtor class largely place—but in the interim!—-there is- place All this time no book of directions had to perfection, the sheet being dropped in predominates. for nothing and nothing is constantly in showed up. The missing pamphlet finally place on the table. came to light in the last box of all. Our its place. It was midnight! But the deed was That Guides’ Association. To an outsider with a leaning toward joy was short-lived though, for when we done. The ghost walked, so did we. Charles Harnden, a well known guide, is the humorous, there is infinite amusement came to follow the book’s directions we It was the original intention to issue somewhat interested in forming an Associ in all this. To the fellows who are doing found that the press was of a later model the first number May 23d; but as the time ation of Guides throughout the Rangeley the work there is infinite nerve-wearing than the one therein described, hence the drew near, it looked less and less like it Lakes region, the object to be mutual pro tension. During the ordeal I occupied a two failed to connect. Without specific and finally became an impossibility. If tection. position about half way between the two. directions we were forced to fall back on we had attempted to get the first number He has the constitution of the “ Adiron in fact 1 was “ substitute devil.” common sense and a general knowledge of out Friday or Saturday it would have de dack Guides’ Association,” also copies of “ Substitute devil” is a new post. printing machinery, but the latter stood layed the next week’s issue, for it is very circulars, blanks and a “ Member’s Annual It was created for me in the same man us in good stead and in ten hours’ work hard work to make up time on a 12-page Certificate,” a card certified by the Presi the press was practically up. ner that our Uncle Samuel cares for the paper requiring four impressions for each dent of the Association that “ the bearer Faithful alter alf the regular plums have During this time visitors were numerous. one. is a reliable guide.” been snapped up. Among them came two small youths. One The preamble of the above Association is A Good Thittg. Push ?t Along. Before we finally reached our present of them looked tiro press all over. Then like this: “ The increase of railroads and quarters it looked as though the R a n g e - he said; “ Hi!. Tommy, see George Esty’s [SEW ENGLAND t o u r ist.] the rush of travel into the Adirondacks l e y L a k e s would have to be written in new thrashing machine.” In the contemplation of the future of have brought among us unknown persons one place, set up in another, made up in After the press was put in running order New England, and the regulation of its who offer themselves as guides. Such still another, printed in a fourth place many people came in to see the wheels go public policy, the summer resort industry persons may, or not, be competent. This and mailed at a fifth. One man offered us round and it fell to the lot of the substi must play a most important part, because Association proposes a registration of all the use of his field. Another kind-hearted tute devil to show them through the es it offers a certain field in which we can competent and equipped guides, who will citizen volunteered to keep the teams tablishment. So many came that the Sub build a permanent structure of industrial hold cards of membership, issued by offi away if we preempted a section of the stitute grew slightly demented and at one strength, promising a general recovery of cers of the Association, after such persons street.

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